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  • A Successful Vintner Pours His Passion Into Dynastic Dream

    07/02/2006 7:59:27 AM PDT · by NautiNurse · 31 replies · 477+ views
    WSJ.com ^ | 1 July 2006 | Julia Flynn
    > snip Today, the 65-year-old Mr. Harlan has a business to be proud of. His Harlan Estate wines, at $265 a bottle, have won perfect 100-point ratings from Robert Parker's Wine Advocate newsletter. Oenophiles add their names to multiyear waiting lists and snap up the wines at auction.But Mr. Harlan's broader passion is what he calls his "200-year plan." Crafted over several decades and consisting of handwritten notes on hundreds of legal pads, the plan analyzes Europe's venerable wine families in an attempt to distill the secrets of dynastic longevity.There are notes from weeks he spent at the Rothschild family's...